Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-01-13

LOUISIANA now aspircs To be the great
nay-producing State of the Union.
The new year opened bright with prom
Uses Tor the plumbers and coal dealers.
NEw YORK CITY drinks 6,OOOOoO barrels
Oh beer every year, at cost OF SIS, 100 900
KANSAS CITY claims TO have u population
CT lSS,oVo, and including her suburbs &c.,
coo. '
"A CARLOAD OF hickory nuts has been
snipped from Blissheld, Mich, TO Califor.
MIA.
IHE red-nosed man, during the recent
cold snap, was not regarded with suspi
cion.
IN the East there is practically nothing
left of the custom of making New Years
calls.
THE grave and monument of Oliver Gold.
smith In London are in n condition of sad
neglect.
MRS. MCCLELLAN, widow of the General.
and her daughter have gone TO Italy for
the winter.
SENATOR kENNA recently gave a dinner
mt which he skillfully carved whole
roasted deer.
THERE are l4,l65 newspapers and period.
icals OF all sorts published regularly in the
United States.
NEW HAVEN Comm man has brought
suit for 5000 damages against n widow
who Tilted him.
THERE are garlands OF fame waiting 10,
the man who shall invent millionaire's
will that Wills
KANSAS led all the States in the Union
last year in regard TO the number OF miles
OF railroad built.
The reports from ten Southern States
show an increase in the iron output, since
1850, of 565, 200 tons.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND shook hands with
three thousand persons at the New Years
reception at the White House.
The cost Of postage stamps TO the Gov
ernment, covering every thing, including
delivery, is 81 90 per thousand.
THERE are signs that the tithe war in
wales, so far from dying "A natural death
Is really gathering fresh vigor.
The Italian people are about 10 erect
monument TO Garibaldi on the Janiculum.
in Rome, 10 cost 100000 francs
HIRAM L. REvEIs, the first colored man
elected TO the United States Senate. is now
welltodo farmer in Mississippi
In no one year since the beginning OF
our Government have so many prominent
Government officials died as In 1856
a NEW YORK physician braves the wrath
OF society by declaring that sealskin
sacques are very unhealthy garments.
FROM far-away Egypt it is announced
that Ksssala has been relieved. This is
cheering We trust Kassala is better now
ACCORDING to the dispatches Of the past
few days, the leading question seems TO
have been: HAS Secretary Lamar lost his
Holti"
Jim CUMMINGS" will be able 20 study
the polite Letter Writer behind the bars
at the Missouri Penitentiary for the next
seven years.
1T is reported that enterprising farmers
In Kansas have sent 10 Alabama for cotton
seed TO experiment with the great staple
In their climate.
MozART's tomb is as unknown as that Of
Moses. But his monument will be placed
next 10 the tombs Of Schubert and Bee.
thoven, at Vienna.
The St Louis Rep,sJitcda says that IL is
not exactly the fair thing that Michigan
should have three United States Senators
Jones should resign.
THE last book that General Logan read
was the biography Of General r. H. Lee
He finished the book the day before his
fatal sickness began.
LORD TENNYsoS persists in his detormi-
nation 20 write poem 20 the Battenberg
bhONs 6ll Ilkldbu stf'IiH 10 bt uDWu on
the poor little princelct.
DRKssMAKERs OF New York complain Of
their long hours and low wages, and de-
nounce the "bargain counters as among
the causes OF these evils
COMMISSIONER CoLMAS vigorously pro
tests against a violation by the Illinois
Live Stock Commission Of the rules relat-
ing 20 pleuro-pneumonia.
a WIDOW in Oakland Cal. has sued "A
newspaper for libel because in its obituary
notice Of her husband IL spoke Of his hav-
ing "gOne 20 a happier home"
BE Of good heart, ye who have turned
over new leaf n is difficult 20 keep faith
the first few days Of your good resolutions,
but IL will be easier after awhile.
SPoHTsMES will be glad 10 know that The
Wisconsin Legislature is likely this winter
20 enact more stringent law protecting
wild ducks during tho spring season
THE latest fashionable fad is for the
young women 20 industriOusly eat pepper
mint candy az tho theaters They evidently
intend 10 get even with their clovechewing
escorts.
DRW. n. HALE an Edinburgh physician,
who is travelling in this country, has a cane
which he says cost $500 The head con
tains over three pounds Of eighteen karat
gold. and is mounted with sixty-6ve dia-
monds.
Ir Is rumored that Senator Brown, of
Georgia, will resign his seat in the U. =
Senate about the middle Of January. He
suffers greatly with asthma, and his physi
clans hive warned him against the Wash
ington winter climate.
GEOR0E WAsHINGTON, William Penn and
Christopher Columbus went on O terrible
spree in New York New Years Day, IL the
police docket Of the next morning is 10 be
believed.
THE salaries and mileage Of United
States Senators last year amounted &c
t3s4, ,6876s, and the salaries Of officers.
clerks and employees Of the Senate 10
1884, ,2Ol.0O
BERLIN celebrated on New Years, the
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